Petty’s babies are, perhaps, the most beautiful mix we have ever had on our little farm. I think the only other batch we had that was so beautiful was Broody Hen’s babies, but she ended up having four boys out of her seven. I am still not sure, but we may have four girls, maybe five girls, maybe, if we are really lucky on this one beautiful bird, six girls. I have seen almost zero chest bumping amongst the babies, but it’s still very hard to tell.
But I am pretty sure that one of the little black chicks, who I thought might be a boy because of a little bit of comb showing early, is actually a girl. The comb just never took off, though this baby is part Easter Egger, a breed with very little comb, so this can make it tough to tell the sex of the bird if you are going by the comb. So we will see, but based on everything in total, including bone structure, I think this one is a girl. She’s the one on the far left in the picture. If you look closely, you can see her little puffy cheeks!
I am super excited this baby is a girl because she hatched from a Cora egg. Cora is Poe’s grand baby. This means this baby is Poe’s great grand baby. And she’s black! Cora is a white Easter Egger, and the daddy is Rooster, who is red and green. This means this little baby got her black feathers from Poe’s line, and that makes me so happy and melancholy at the same time.
My son said we should name her Poe Jr. Jr. Jr. We already have a Poe Jr. Jr, who I need to write about this coming week, so I said we needed something better. Since it’s almost Halloween and this baby is from Poe’s line, I thought she should be Lenore. How lovely is that?
